Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Persephone's Valentine

I think she is not a bright person
or even a beautiful person but she
confirms goodness does not depend
 
on brilliance or beauty or that it
even has to make sense wedded
as it is to paratactical distortions
 
and loneliness out of range of
hollering grandly elusive except
in its talent to astonish
 
by working on subterranean
and upper atmospheric forces
suddenly shoved into our downtown
 
cemetery of awareness
recalling resurrections of old
gentians dragged up in boggy fields

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